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Bradley Gerrard

Cost of living crisis set to push divorces up even as numbers hit decade high

Some divorce specialists believe the cost of living crisis will push divorce numbers up, even after a decade-high number of applications between April-June.

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Divorce specialists are predicting that the brutal squeeze on household finances will push marriage breakdown rates up, even after they hit a 10-year high.

New data from the Ministry of Justice shows that there were more than 33,200 applications between April and June, which statisticians called the “highest number of applictions in a decade”.

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